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IPL 2023: Kolkata retain playoff hopes, beat Hyderabad by 5 runs in close match

In the 47th match of IPL 2023, today Kolkata Knight Riders defeated Sunrisers Hyderabad by 5 runs. Batting first, Kolkata had scored 171 runs for 9 wickets. In response, the Sunrisers team could only score 168 runs. Kolkata has secured 2 points with this win and kept the playoff hopes alive. At the same time, after the defeat of Sunrisers, the road ahead can be difficult. For Kolkata, Shardul Thakur and Vaibhav Arora got two wickets each while Harshit Rana, Andre Russell, Anukul Roy and Varun Chakraborty got one wicket each. Sunrisers Hyderabad captain Aiden Markram scored the highest innings of 41 runs. At the same time, Heinrich Klaasen scored 36 runs in 20 balls.
Kolkata Knight Riders scored 171 runs for nine wickets in the IPL match against Sunrisers Hyderabad on Thursday in the midst of a fall of wickets with the help of a 61-run partnership between captain Nitish Rana and Rinku Singh. At the time of both landing at the crease, KKR’s score was 49 for three after the powerplay. Rana was dismissed in the 12th over after scoring 42 runs in 31 balls. He hit three fours and three sixes in his innings and gave a respectable score to the team. Wickets kept falling from the other end. Andre Russell and Sunil Narine of the West Indies failed once again. Rinku scored 46 runs in 35 balls and instead of playing an aggressive innings, played with restraint by saving wickets.
KKR got off to a terrible start and opener Rahmanullah Gurbaj could not replicate his performance from the last match against Gujarat Titans. Afghanistan’s 21-year-old Gurbaz was sent to the pavilion by South African fast bowler Marco Jansen on the first ball of the second over. Harry Brook took his catch at mid-on. Five balls later, Venkatesh Iyer also lost his wicket. In an attempt to play a hook shot to Jansen, he missed and the ball bounced in the air and went into the hands of wicketkeeper Heinrich Klaasen. India’s fast bowler Bhuvneshwar Kumar bowled economically from the other end, conceding just 12 runs in the first two overs. Karthik Tyagi came to bowl in the fifth over and took the valuable wicket of Jason Roy of England. Mayank Agarwal took his easy catch at short thirdman.

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